the years after the Act of Union was very low: several High Court judges, including Daly, were universally believed to owe their elevation solely to their support for the Union, and his appointment was badly received by the legal profession. It was said of Daly that, while he had been a good student, and was reasonably well-read, he had never held even a dozen briefs in his whole career, and that barristers mocked his ignorance of the law in open court. He did at least come from a family with a tradition of judicial service: his great-grandfather, the first Denis Daly, had been a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) during the reign of James II. He was also a man of blameless life, though retiring in disposition and generally unpopular. If no lawyer, he did have a reputation for common sense. Family He lived at Eyrecourt in County Galway. In 1803 he married his cousin Louisa, daughter of Richard Gore of Sandymount, County Wicklow and Martha Fiott, but had no children. She died in 1816 References 1758 births 1829 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish barristers Irish MPs 1798–1800 Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Galway constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1801–1802 Barons of the Irish Exchequer Justices of the Irish King's Bench Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Galway constituencies Serjeants-at-law (Ireland)